Paper submission for conference academic sessions:
31 December 2024
Research proposal (paper) submission for PhD Symposium: 31 December 2024
Theme of the Conference: Sustainable Finance, Earnings Quality, Fintech, Governance, and post-pandemic challenges in Financial Markets
Please note that you need to create two PDF files before submission (one blind – no author details, and the other with author details)
Name the blind document using the title of your paper (PaperTitle.pdf)
Name the document with co-authors' details using the title of the paper and the surname of the presenting author (PaperTitle_Surname.pdf)
Accounting Information/ Disclosure Practices/Earnings Quality (Sponsor – TBA)
Asset Pricing/Financial Markets/Market Microstructure (Sponsor –TBA)
Banking/Behavioural Finance/Corporate Finance/Financial Economics (Sponsor –TBA)
Corporate Governance/Social Responsibility (Sponsor – TBA)
Sustainable Finance,FINTECH and Post Pandemic challenges in Financial Markets (Sponsor – TBA)
Selected presenters at the conference academic sessions/PhD symposium will be invited to submit their papers for a special issue of the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. Subject to quality, we will publish up to 20 papers from the conference/PhD symposium on Australasian financial markets such as Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea and Thailand. It is important to note that the core research question of such papers must be in finance to align with the central Aims & Scope of PBFJ.
Submission to PBFJ will open in 1 July 2025.
Professor Jing Shi
Professor Shenggang Yang
Professor Xueyong Zhang
Professor Jing Shi is a Professor of Finance at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. He is a fellow of Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand and is a board member of Asian Finance Association. He is currently a Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Accounting and Finance as well as an Associate Editor for Research in International Business and Finance. Professor Shi’s main research interests are in the areas of empirical corporate finance, FinTech, debt markets, political economy and business strategy. He has published over 60 articles in a broad range of internationally recognized Economics, Finance, Accounting and management journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, and Management Science.
Professor Shenggang Yang is a Professor of Finance and Statistics at Hunan University. He serves as the Director and Chief Expert of the Financial Development and Credit Management Research Center, a specialized research institution in Hunan Province. Yang has led numerous national and provincial projects, published over 200 papers, and authored 11 academic monographs. He has received multiple accolades, including the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in Hunan Province and recognition as a National Teaching Master and leading talent under the National "Ten Thousand Talents Plan."
Professor Xueyong Zhang is the Director of the Graduate Work Department and Dean of the Graduate School at Central University of Finance and Economics. He is a professor at the School of Finance, and a doctoral supervisor. Zhang leads a major project funded by the National Social Science Fund, along with two projects from the National Natural Science Fund and one from the China Postdoctoral Fund. His papers have been accepted for publication in the global top-tier finance, accounting, and business journals such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Portfolio Management, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Zhang serves as an Associate Editor for Accounting & Finance and is a board member for China Finance Review International. He is also a peer reviewer for several academic journals and a member of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPA), contributing his expertise as an expert in the Financial Group of the Beijing Emergency Committee.
Professor Balasingham Balachandran
Professor Allen Huang
Professor Tom Smith
Professor Yongxiang Wang
Professor Bohui Zhang
Professor Balasingham Balachandran is a Professor of Finance at Monash University Malaysia and an Honorary Professor at La Trobe University. He has published extensively in top-tier journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Banking and Finance, and received multiple accolades for his research excellence. He has played a crucial role in achieving high Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) ratings for the Finance discipline at La Trobe University and has successfully led numerous research grant applications. His research focuses on corporate finance and governance, covering topics such as dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, and stock price crash risk. Balachandran has supervised 17 PhD students, with nine publishing in A* journals, and he serves on the editorial boards of the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal and Pacific Accounting Review.
Professor Allen Huang is in the Department of Accounting, the Associate Dean of the School of Business, and Faculty Associate of the IEMS at HKUST. His research has been featured in CFA Digest, CFO, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Law School Forum, Vox and Financial Times, and has won First Paper in MIT Asia Conference in Accounting (twice), IRRC Institute Research Award, and International Centre for Pension Management Research Award. His publications have appeared in top-tier finance, accounting and management journals such as the Journal of Finance, Management Science, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Review of Accounting Studies, and Contemporary Accounting Research. He is an editor at the Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting. He has taught financial accounting, managerial accounting, corporate finance, blockchain and cryptocurrency, big data analytics and AI. He has won the Franklin Prize for teaching Excellence twice, HKUST Best Ten Lecturer twice, and is on the Dean’s Recognition of Excellent Teaching Performance every year.
Professor Tom Smith is one of the leading finance academics in Australia and has been ranked as the number one finance academic in Australia and New Zealand by both the Journal of Financial Literature and the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. Tom is the leading researcher in Environmental Finance, Asset Pricing Theory and Tests; Design of Markets – Market Microstructure; and Derivatives. Tom has supervised over 50 PhD students to completion and his PhD students have over 50 tier 1 papers in their own names.
Professor Yongxiang Wang is a Chair Professor of Finance at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He previously held a tenured position as an Associate Professor of Finance at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Professor Wang's research interests span empirical corporate finance, political economy, organizational economics, behavioral economics, and corporate strategy in emerging markets, with a primary focus on the Chinese economy and financial markets. He has published over 20 high-quality articles in prestigious international journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Accounting and Economics. Professor Wang serves as an Associate Editor at Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Finance, Management Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, and China Economic Review. He is also a frequent referee for top-tier journals in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, Sociology, Political Science, and Science. His research projects have received support from NSF grants in the USA, the United Kingdom, Australia, and China. His work has been featured in Science, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Economist, The New York Times, and China Daily. Professor Wang was awarded the SAIF Faculty Academic Research Award in 2023.
Professor Bohui Zhang is the executive dean of School of Management and Economics, presidential chair professor of finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, the associate director of Shenzhen Institute of Data Economy, the director of the Center for FinTech and Social Finance (SFI). He was also the professor of finance at UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney, and the associate director of the Institute of Global Finance (IGF). He studies FinTech, the media, Chinese capital market, and international capital markets. His papers have been accepted for publication in the global top-tier finance, accounting, and business journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, Journal of Financial Quantitative and Analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, and Journal of International Money and Finance. He has also been awarded with research grants from Australian Research Council, the Centre for International Finance and Regulation, Australian School of Business, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and best paper prizes from MIT Asia Conference in Accounting, the Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets of the Korean Securities Association, the Chinese Finance Association Best Paper Symposium, the China Finance Annual Meeting, the Asian Finance Association Conference, China International Conference in Finance, and the Northern Finance Association Conference.
Early-Bird Deadline: 9 March 2025
Final Registration Deadline: 23 March 2025
The conference is offering a reduced registration fee to residents of developing countries. Developing countries (e.g., China) are defined according to the United Nations classification:
https://iccn-2024.com/country-classificationAny inquiries regarding the submission process
for papers can be directed to:
hnu_committee@163.com
The payment link will be accessible directly on the conference website.
Deadline: All papers must be submitted by 31 December 2024. Late submissions will not be considered.
Notification of acceptance for the conference will be emailed to the submitting author by the end of January 2025.
All presenters of conference papers are called upon to discuss a paper in the same session in which they present.
